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At two o'clock in the
afternoon, following the adjournment of the Fourth District's Republican
Congressional Convention, approximately 3,000 people gather to hear senatorial
candidate Lincoln deliver a speech "from a stand on the east side of the public
square." Although inclement weather interrupts his speech, Lincoln completes it
"notwithstanding a continued drizzle of rain." One newspaper reports, "those
who went to scoff, came away...strong Lincoln men." The newspaper adds, "[the]
cool, calm arguments of Lincoln are perfectly irresistible." Daily Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 21 August 1858,
2:3.